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Elysium. Not bad, actually. Hardly life changing, and the evil bad guy is a bit overdone, Jodie Foster is a tad two dimensional, and the final boss fight is a bit silly too, but still...
Granted, it has Alice Braga in it and I'm pretty much incapable of being objective about movies she's in (she looks rather like an ex of mine), so I may be too positive.

Watched Side Effects which was very enjoyable. I was lucky to go in with nothing other than the Netflix description and a few recommendations from friends. The story did not go where I expected and it turned out to be a different type of movie than I had settled in to watch. I normally find Jude Law very annoying but he was great and Mara Rooney (gosh, she's pretty) was also excellent.

Machete Kills was a blast. I haven't had this much fun in a theater since, well, Machete. It's pretty much more of the same, so whatever reaction you had to the first is likely the same you'd have from this one. The ending is well set up the the next installment, which I hope happens as Rodriguez has a knack for this kind of film.

I saw Gravity today and I think it's the Crysis of the film world. Technically impressive, but nothing groundbreaking. It's not bad, mind you, but I don't think it deserves such hype.

I see. And what is youre favorite space movie?

Crysis - that's nice description of Gravity. It lacks something besides superb special effects. And I was somewhat pissed about how realistic this movie is trying to be just to throw

SPOILER

a scene where Sandra Bullock is fire extinguisher-jetpacking into space station that moves with speed of ~7000m/s bullshit.
I think this is just slightly more intelligent stupid blockbuster, like Nolan's Batman movies where entire police forces of city with high criminal rate is going into servers to catch one bad guy and his henchmen and get trapped.
I mean, these two are still better than most crap (saw Thor 2 trailer today in cinema - what a shit) that is screened in cinema, but don't except something truly brilliant.

Recently i saw white house down and olympus has fallen white house down being a lot more lighthearted that olympus but they´re both great , and not so recently a serbian film and i spit on you grave 2... and man, theyre rough

Gravity: It's remarkable that a protagonist who repeatedly escapes the most implausible of space-deaths can still be so inept. And annoying.

I can't believe they named Clooney's character "Kowalski." The layers of symbolism Cuaron hashed onto the end do nothing but draw attention to the fact that this is about three IQ points north of your average Summer blockbuster. I guess I'll watch Pacific Rim and see if the opposite approach makes me gag, too.

I thought Gravity was the best movie I've seen all year. It's incredibly tense, and I've never been so scared of characters dying. Sure, lots of things don't make sense, but I didn't really mind because it didn't feel as though the movie patronised me in a "okay, this doesn't make any sense, but the stupid audience doesn't know that" kind of way that happens so often in movies.

A friend of mine recommended Side Effects, and while Rooney Mara is a pretty woman, the movie was kind of a drag, I thought. Some things felt really forced, such as the SPOILER: wife that is suddenly extremely jealous for no reason at all. Maybe I just overthink movies about psychology though.

Went to see The Foam of the Days yesterday, because the trailer looked really good, and indeed the first half was reaaaally good. Visually inventive, highly stylized, but always supporting the mood. Very funny, very emotionally touching for me.
The second half I didn't really feel, and I think putting the ending where it is sends a wrong message. Still, very much worth it for the first half alone.

Also:

Saturday matinee! Or, more precisely, needing to watch a film in the afternoon and then watching another in the evening with pizza. The latter was The Adjustment Bureau, starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt's breasts. Also, Emily Blunt. Unfortunately a few sequences near the end of the film have her in a dress that doesn't really suit running around in and there's a noticeable amount of jiggle. That aside, it's a pretty good film. Quite surprising, actually. It goes from making you think it's going to be a bit of a weird conspiracy theory film to something pretty different. There's a good few holes in it and it's not completely cohesive or reasonable, but it's a pretty good watch if you're looking for something easy that will exceed expectations.

I saw the movie a day before you did and would describe it 100% the same. Get out of my head!

Lone Ranger. hum. Not sure what they were aiming for there and I don't think they were either. Also didn't have anything much to do with the comic I read as a kid (which, as an aside, confused me for quite some years because "Lone" is a female firstname here).

I didn't really mind because it didn't feel as though the movie patronised me in a "okay, this doesn't make any sense, but the stupid audience doesn't know that" kind of way that happens so often in movies.

Yeah that's really not what the film is about at all. There's lots of layered criticism in there about state intervention while also maintaining a narrative with rich characters and their personal decisions/flaws/etc.

There'd be a stronger argument to make about how it represents the state and drug policy as being preachy, though I don't think it is.

Lone Ranger. hum. Not sure what they were aiming for there and I don't think they were either. Also didn't have anything much to do with the comic I read as a kid (which, as an aside, confused me for quite some years because "Lone" is a female firstname here).

The last action scene and the carnivorous rabbits are undeniably brilliant.
I'm always happy to see Barry Pepper.
The rest, well, it mostly sucks.